Shen Yuhuai held Chen Qizhao's wrist, allowing him to lean on him to stand, "Can you still walk? I'll take you away."
"Yes." Chen Qizhao blinked, the tinnitus in his ears getting worse. He wanted to dispel the overlapping shadows in front of his eyes, but what he got in return was a clearer and clearer phantom. He was half a beat slower: "Maybe... I can't hold on for long."
Shen Yuhuai realized the seriousness of the situation.
The party continued and few people noticed this little episode by the window. The waiter at the wine pool was paying attention to the situation ahead, waiting for instructions from other guests. After a while, he saw a young man wearing glasses coming over. He held another boy's hand and spoke in a colder tone, "Hello, my friend is not feeling well and needs a rest room."
The waiter immediately said, "Please follow me."
"Hey? Where's Chen Qizhao?" Cheng Rong and the others were chatting on the sofa, but they were discovered by Shen Yuhuai and it was not good to peepe, so they stopped looking over.
As a result, when he raised his eyes, Chen Qizhao and Shen Yuhuai disappeared.
Yan Kailin looked around and said, "I don't know? Did he go to the bathroom?"
There is a lounge above the venue for guests to rest. Most of the excitement tonight is focused on the party, and the way to the lounge is very quiet. Under the guidance of the waiter, Shen Yuhuai helped Chen Qizhao to the lounge, turned around and told the waiter: “Go to the venue to notify Mr. Chen Jianhong or other members of the Chen family and tell them the current situation. In addition, I need a doctor as soon as possible.”
The waiter glanced at the boy who was already sitting on the sofa. They had a plan for this kind of emergency. "We will notify someone immediately."
After the waiter left, Shen Yuhuai closed the door but did not lock it. He poured a glass of water and walked to Chen Qizhao's side. He half-knelt down and looked at Chen Qizhao with a serious expression. He noticed his slightly dilated pupils and abnormal behavior. "Relax and keep breathing. I have notified someone to come over. No need to speak. Just nod if you can hear me."
But his symptoms did not seem to be a reaction to alcohol, but more like he had accidentally taken some psychiatric drugs.
Chen Qizhao tried his best to make sense of the situation in front of him, and when he saw Shen Yuhuai's eyes, it was as if he had returned to that day in his previous life. It was the same scene, Shen Yuhuai seemed to be looking at him in the same way, pulling him out of the deep water that was about to drown.
What day was that? It was the day when he and Shen Yuhuai first met in a sense.
The entrance passage of the Chen Group's building was crowded with people and the media. Bright flash lights and microphones were pointed in front of him. The media reporters' cold and harsh words appeared in front of him again and again, attributing all the faults of the Chen Group, such as the stock plummet and project bankruptcy, to him.
There is no one left in the Chen family. Chen Jianhong died of cerebral hemorrhage, Zhang Yazhi was hospitalized due to excessive grief, and Chen Shiming is paralyzed in bed and is undergoing treatment. After careful selection, the group's shareholders meeting chose the most suitable scapegoat. He hadn't even graduated yet, but he was already forced to bear the sudden responsibility. The group was falling apart, and his uncles and aunts were whispering in his ears about his responsibilities.
For the first time, he felt the huge workload his father and brother had in the past, and for the first time he felt the malicious abuse and condemnation coming from all sides.
For a fool, taking over does not mean a turnaround. There are indeed some old subordinates of his father and brothers in the group, but there are also villains who take advantage of the situation to make a profit. More and more bad news came, and he went from knowing nothing to slowly accepting all kinds of information. At that time, he still retained some naivety, and was relieved after getting the help from Lin Shizhong. However, it was not until the media and a group of employees who demanded debts suddenly appeared downstairs of the Chen Building that day that he realized that it only takes a moment to crush a person.
All kinds of rumors spread, such as that the Chen family went bankrupt, that he was about to run away with the money, and that he was disregarding the interests of the group's employees and trying to leave more projects unfinished and make money and leave... When he was in the spotlight, he realized that no one came forward to take responsibility for it all, and all the blame and abuse fell on him.
He had no idea how many people were in front of him. The flickering lights made his vision go dark. He made his promise amid doubts.
"I won't run away. I will settle all my wages and debts..."
What he got in return was the condemnation and slander from the public, with the emotional crowd shouting that he was a liar and throwing things and rotten eggs at him.
No one believed him.
No one believed he could keep his promise.
As if everything he did was a joke.
Someone broke through the bodyguards' line and the scene was in chaos.
Finally, someone took advantage of the chaos and grabbed his hand, leading him to avoid those malicious people, and they finally hid in a dark storage room on the first floor. He was in a very miserable state at that time. He seemed to be able to hear the noises coming from outside the door. The media was looking for him, and the debt collectors were also looking for him. He was like a turtle hiding in his shell, no longer wanting to face it all. Chen Qizhao is a waste. He can't do these things and doesn't have the ability to do these things.
In his cowardice, he asked the person in front of him in self-abandonment, "Did I do something wrong?"
Maybe he should listen to some opinions, donate money and take his family abroad, regardless of the mess in China and the years of hard work of his Chen family...
"Chen Qizhao, you did nothing wrong."
The utility room was narrow and cramped, with messy cleaning tools scattered around. Shen Yuhuai held a folder in his hand, half-crouched against the door of the utility room, and repeated this sentence to him seriously and rationally: "You did nothing wrong, and you dare to take responsibility. This is the courage that many people cannot do."
Shen Yuhuai at that time repeatedly overlapped with the person in front of him, and the pair of eyes were surprisingly similar.
The surroundings seemed to be in darkness as well. Chen Qizhao thought in confusion, staring at the door behind Shen Yuhuai, “I did it.”
Shen Yuhuai was stunned. Judging from Chen Qizhao's eyes, he asked in confusion, "What did you do?"
"Fulfill your promise..." Chen Qizhao's eyes fell on him, as if he was looking through him, "but you didn't see it."
Shen Yuhuai didn't see that when his career was getting better, Shen Yuhuai died.
The VX messages sent out fell into the sea, it is a bottomless pit that will never receive a response.
Just like his family, Shen Yuhuai also left in the end.
The only close friend I had was gone.
Shen Yuhuai frowned slightly, and he asked tentatively: “Chen Qizhao, did you recognize the wrong person?”
Chen Qizhao looked at him puzzledly, "Aren't you Shen Yuhuai?"
He repeated stubbornly: "You are Shen Yuhuai, I didn't recognize the wrong person."
"Close your eyes, Chen Qizhao, and don't think about anything else. What you see now may not be true."
Shen Yuhuai looked down at the time on his watch, his peripheral vision scanning the door, he was waiting for the doctor and the Chen family to come over.
Chen Qizhao is talking nonsense.
Shen Yuhuai listened carefully, but there was no logic in the other party's words, and only a few words could be recognized as words or sentences.
Chen Qizhao lowered his head, as if this opportunity had taken him into memories that he had long been reluctant to recall. All kinds of people appeared in his mind, and finally his mind was empty, lingering on Lin Shizhong's curses.
He said to himself uncertainly: "Am I crazy?"
Shen Yuhuai stopped moving when he heard this, and he looked steadily into Chen Qizhao's eyes, "No, why would you think so."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Chen Shiming rushing in through the door.
Shen Yuhuai stood up: "Preliminary judgment is that it is a psychotropic drug, and the route of ingestion is most likely alcohol. Does he have any other medical history? Or is it an allergic reaction to the drug?"
"You are from the Shen family..." Chen Shiming immediately said: "No, he has no relevant medical history."
He came over immediately after hearing the waiter's message, and when he heard Shen Yuhuai say this, he ordered Special Assistant Xu to notify the rest of the Chen family and control the scene at the same time. If there is no relevant medical history, then such a reaction was most likely caused by someone doing something, and everything that Chen Qizhao touched would have to be investigated.
He suddenly remembered something, "But he said before that his heart was not feeling well."
Shen Yuhuai paused: "He has a heart disease?"
Chen Shiming was also unable to judge. Once the incident occurred, he realized that he did not know Chen Qizhao well enough. He previously thought that the child was faking illness during puberty. "No, the examinations were all normal. It might be due to staying up late."
The doctor followed and made the same initial judgment as Shen Yuhuai, that it was a drug reaction.
As for how much intake is difficult to determine, the best way is to go directly to the hospital for a blood test.
Shen Yuhuai did not delay, he immediately helped Chen Qizhao up, and his words were clear: “My car is outside, go directly to the hospital.”
The doctor said, "The nearest hospital is the Third City Hospital, which is not far away."
Special Assistant Xu received Chen Shiming's order and immediately contacted the organizer of the party to call the police and control the scene after notifying Chen's family. Based on the surveillance information, he preserved everything that Chen Qizhao had touched.
"The test revealed the presence of a certain type of psychiatric prescription drug. If taken by mistake, ordinary people would become emotionally agitated and behave in an extreme manner. It also has the negative effect of producing hallucinations. Don't worry, it's not addictive. Judging from the drug test results, he probably didn't take much, so it's very strange that he would have such a severe reaction." The doctor frowned and explained carefully, "But it's also somewhat related to his alcohol consumption. The details will depend on follow-up observations. If the patient is fine, it's possible that he doesn't tolerate the drug very well."
Zhang Yazhi rushed to the hospital and said anxiously: "He never behaved like this before when he drank."
The doctor said, "Don't worry, ma'am. He's in good condition right now. Let's wait and see if he wakes up."
Zhang Yazhi is talking to the doctor.
Outside the VIP ward, Chen Jianhong walked a few steps to the corridor and looked at Chen Shiming with a heavy face: "Did someone check the results?"
The scene was well protected, and the things Chen Qizhao touched were limited. It was finally found that the thing that caused the drug reaction was a glass of champagne placed on the table. Chen Shiming said: "According to Yan Kailin and others at the same table, the champagne he drank was given by the waiter next to him. At that time, they had finished their drinks, so they randomly stopped someone to ask for champagne."
"Where is the other people's wine?" Chen Jianhong asked.
Chen Shiming said: "Only his glass of wine had a drug reaction."
Fortunately, Chen Qizhao only took a few sips of the champagne and did not consume excessively.
Chen Jianhong's heart sank. It was not an accidental dose, but the person who gave the drug targeted Chen Qizhao precisely. As he was thinking, he caught a glimpse of a young man standing outside the ward. He saw Zhang Yazhi talking to the doctor. The other party waited for a long time and finally handed a report in his hand to Zhang Yazhi.
"That's Yu Huai, right?" Chen Jianhong asked.
Chen Shiming: "This time, it's all thanks to his help."
Chen Jianhong nodded: "Don't forget to thank them."
After Shen Yuhuai handed the report to Zhang Yazhi, he saw Chen Qizhao sleeping quietly through the glass outside the ward door. Thinking of Chen Qizhao's illogical but affirmative words, his expression couldn't help but become a little gloomy.
Especially the question asked by the other party.
He asked me if I was crazy?
It's like the loneliness of someone on the verge of despair and calling for help.
Chen Qizhao had a very deep dream. He seemed to hear someone calling him in his ear while he had a splitting headache. The scattered and chaotic memories finally came down to one point. When he woke up, he saw the plain white ceiling and the IV bottle hanging in the upper left position. The chaotic memory finally came back. He only remembered that he followed Shen Yuhuai to the lounge in the end, and his memory after that was completely chaotic.
He was about to get up when he was stopped by a voice.
"Lie down. The doctor said you need to rest for two days for observation." Chen Shiming sat beside him. "Thanks to your good luck this time, you didn't drink much of that glass of champagne. Otherwise, if you really had a problem, it wouldn't be a matter of sleeping. You wouldn't..."
Chen Qizhao didn't move. He stared at Chen Shiming for a while. When his memory came back to him, he remembered the waiter with strange movements. He didn't say anything, but quickly thought about what happened at the meeting. He really couldn't think of anyone else but Lin Shizhong. But he didn't expect that Lin Shizhong would dare to drug him so blatantly, especially in the presence of all the Chen family members.
He noticed the problem at that time, but the wine glasses were placed randomly by the waiter, and people around him just took them casually, but the glass he took happened to be the one in front of him. If someone else had taken his wine glass, he would have been the one in trouble, but Lin Shizhong dared to do it under such circumstances... This means that the other party could disregard the safety of others in order to teach him a lesson.
Seeing that the other person was quiet and didn't say anything, Chen Shiming was about to say something to him, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Forget it, he said: “Mom just went to the doctor, this time thanks to Shen Yuhuai…”
Before he could finish his words, the door of the VIP ward was pushed open, and Chen Jianhong and Lin Shizhong walked in, accompanied by their assistants.
Chen Qizhao's eyes fell on Lin Shizhong, the latter's expression did not change, and as soon as he entered the ward, he put on an appearance of caring for his junior. It was not until Lin Shizhong looked over that Chen Qizhao lowered his head to avoid his gaze. He half-closed his eyes and looked at the clean and beautiful pair of hands on the white quilt, his eyes full of calculation.
Lin Shizhong thought he had covered up the situation very well. If he didn't suffer the consequences, wouldn't that be a pity...?
"It's all my fault this time. The organizer didn't do a good job of checking the personnel, which gave them the opportunity to take advantage of the situation." Lin Shizhong looked at Chen Qizhao, who was lying on the hospital bed with a pale face, and said apologetically: "Jianhong, don't worry, I will investigate this matter thoroughly. When the police give the results, I will give you an explanation."
Chen Qizhao didn't say anything, and he didn't look very well. He didn't look at anyone, and his gaze was avoiding everyone.
Lin Shizhong didn't show it on his face and continued talking to Chen Jianhong. His words were full of apologies and he was very polite. He had heard that the kid from the Chen family had a very obvious reaction to the drugs. Although the amount he took was insufficient, from what other people had said he had been talking nonsense, so he probably wasn't awake yet.
Chen Jianhong naturally knew that this matter had nothing to do with his old friend, but Chen Qizhao's accident made him very upset, so he didn't say much. He saw Chen Qizhao trying to avoid the question, "Let the child rest, we'll go talk outside."
As the two of them left, Chen Shiming noticed Chen Qizhao's pale face and couldn't help asking, "Are you feeling unwell? I'll go call a doctor."
Chen Qizhao's eyes stayed on the door, and he said weakly: "Have you found the person who drugged me?"
"We're still investigating. The other party is very tight-lipped. Have you offended anyone recently?" Chen Shiming pressed the bed's service bell, intending to ask the nurse to come in and check on Chen Qizhao's condition. Suddenly, he noticed Chen Qizhao's slightly absent-minded look and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"I didn't offend anyone." Chen Qizhao's voice became a little softer. "Brother, where are the two people who bid with me last night?"
Chen Shiming frowned slightly: "What's wrong?"
Chen Qizhao seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.
Chen Shiming's expression became more serious. "Is there any problem with those two people?"
Chen Qizhao's voice was hoarse, and he said doubtfully, "Do you think I stole something from them? Are they holding a grudge against me?"
"I'll ask Xiao Xu to check on those two..." Chen Shiming took note of the matter after hearing it, but when he noticed the change in Chen Qizhao's expression, he felt a little weird. He affirmed, "You are hiding something from me, why do you suddenly suspect those two?"
Chen Qizhao hid the calculation in his eyes and complained thoughtfully: "I saw one of them yesterday... He seemed to have a good relationship with the person next to Uncle Lin. I saw them hiding in a corner and talking."
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